Tomorrow marks exactly eight weeks before Alea's final day of work (July 24th - she gave notice yesterday). So the following day is likely when we'll begin our drive from Boise up to Sedro Woolley, WA, the starting point of our tag team adventure. We have the house in good order and ready to sell. The ad for selling our CX-5 has been drafted. Since the beginning of the year we've sold off or given away a large percentage of our possessions. We've acquired lots of new gear that we feel will enhance our camping experiences while living on the road. In short, we are ready to go, but we still have no way to get there. Our new van is still AWOL.
We've been perusing Ford's Transit Connect Forum. It appears that a six month lead time is standard for ordering TCs from the factory, not the 2-3 months quoted by our salesman. And we found where, for one person, the time from when their van "left the plant" to when it left Ford's modcenter in Maryland was exactly one month (TCs are all shipped to the US as wagons to avoid a tariff on small trucks - the modcenter is where they take out the extra seats and seat belts and convert them to cargo vans). From there it is probably up to two weeks getting to the dealer, though one pessimist felt it was more like an additional month to get to the west coast. So we are now thinking it is most likely that we'll be seeing the van around the 4th of July (hopefully before, as otherwise that is likely to add additional time delays due to people taking time off of work). If so, the prospects of selling the house this year are dimming, and the timeline for selling the CX-5 is likely to be shorter than we'd like.
So we'll likely spend some time thinking about how we might be able to start trying to sell the CX-5 in advance of the TC getting here, but only after we have some assurance that it will be arriving fairly soon. If it sells quickly, we aren't likely to be without a vehicle for long, so the question is how do we bridge that gap?
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